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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 10:48:12 JST Pissed Hippo
   I checked Wikipedia and asked an AI for a list of ANYBODY in the CIA that has ever been prosecuted for misconduct in the USA in the commission of their work, and I could only find two; a guy that gave contracts to his friends, and a guy that raped women in Algeria.
   
   Everybody else was either convicted for giving classified info to foreign governments that aren't Israel, or for whistleblowing.
   
   Possible exceptions: watergate, iran-contra.
   
   Basically came from a simple question, has the agency ever been punished for misconduct, seems like no.
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     PamelaDrew (pameladrew@gigaohm.bio)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 21:03:36 JST PamelaDrew

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     You nailed it.. there has never been agency accountability for CIA.. came close in the 1970s but less so over time.. even when they hacked Senate Committee investigating torture.. many crimes were committed.. decent sketch of that fiasco.. https://web.archive.org/web/20140806034127/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/how-can-anyone-have-faith-in-a-system-that-lets-the-cia-behave-like-this/375499/
     
     there is a lesser known counterpart to Church the House counterpart under Hon. Otis Pike leaked in part to Village Voice and balance still classified.. https://todayinclh.com/?event=house-suppresses-pike-committee-report
     https://web.archive.org/web/20240801124401/https://www.villagevoice.com/the-cia-report-the-president-doesnt-want-you-to-read/
     https://web.archive.org/web/20140205000335/http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/
     
     last is most fun CIA activity dump 2007 declassified Family Jewels.. NYTimes 2007 - https://web.archive.org/web/20090411131907/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/washington/26cia-timeline.html
     Declassified Archive
     https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm
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     p (p@raru.re)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 21:46:04 JST p

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     America is a failed state
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     ≠ (amerika@annihilation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 23:04:53 JST ≠

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     Technically CIA is not supposed to operate in the USA except to catch spies, and most of that is farmed to the FBI.
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